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Another fine show by Armitage Shanks with his usual impeccable taste in the best the UK has to offer. Here is what he played:

Artist - Album - Track

New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom - The Get Go
Kate Nash - Made of Bricks - Mouthwash
Nine Black Alps - Glitter Gulch - Over the Ocean
Babyshambles - Shotters Nation - You Talk
Amy MacDonald - This is the Life - LA
Jack Penate - Matinee - Second, Minute or Hour
Joy Division - Permanent - She’s Lost Control
Athlete - Beyond the Neighbourhood - Hurricane
The Enemy - We’ll Live and Die in These Towns - Had Enough
Pigeon Detectives - Wait For Me - Take Her Back
Dave Gahan - Hourglass - Deeper & Deeper
Hard-Fi - Once Upon a Time in the West - Can’t Get Along (Without You)
The Cribs - Men’s Needs Women’s Needs Whatever - Moving Pictures

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All images Copyright 2001 and 2007 – George Chin Photography – www.georgechin.com

Subject - Blackmore’s Night Fires At Midnight – A 2001 recording, released on Steamhammer Us/SPV records, with cover photography by George Chin.

One of rock music’s Renaissance men, guitarist Richie Blackmore is the one who has taken the term most literally, having played for the past 10 years in Blackmore’s Night, a band that brings his amazing talents and prog-rock sensibilities to a mix of music that includes Renaissance-era melodies, English folk and recreations of more current folk/rock tunes. Joined in this effort by Long Island’s own Candice Night on vocals and a backing band of squires, lords and bards playing a broad range of medieval and modern instruments, the band has released a series of well-received records and toured regularly, appearing at Renaissance-themed fairs, festivals and unique concert events in castles all over the world, charming audiences wherever they appear.

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Track List
1. 2112
2. A Passage To Bangkok
3. The Twilight Zone
4. Lessons
5. Tears
6.Something For Nothing

All Songs written by Lee, Lifeson, and Peart
Released February, 1976 on Mercury/Polygram Records
Produced by Rush and Terry Brown

Band Members:
Geddy Lee-bass, keyboards, vocals Alex Lifeson-guitars
Neil Peart-drums, percussion

“2112″ was a breakthrough album for Rush, and is still considered the bands’ masterpiece by many fans.

The title track is a 20-minute, seven part suite. On vinyl, this was the whole first side of the album. It tells the story of a man who lives in a future society that is ruled by the Priests of the temple of Syrinx. These priests alone decide what can be heard, read, or seen. The man finds an ancient guitar in a cave, and realizes that he can create his own music. Overjoyed, he takes it to the priests. They take the instrument and destroy it. The man stumbles back to his home. Deciding that he cannot live in a world in which he cannot express himself, he commits suicide.

Melodramatic? Maybe. Powerful? Totally. The music behind the story is driving and intense. Lee, Lifeson, and Peart are each considered among the best at the instrument each plays, and the three together are a force to be reckoned with. There are many “progressive” bands playing today that owe a great debt to Rush.

The rest of the tracks are unrelated to the story, so technically this is not a “concept album”. But all I can remember from 1976 is listening to the first side, then picking up the needle and setting it back to the beginning.

By Rebecca

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Well it was an interesting time on Monday night’s 3 Amigos on CKUT FM as we all indulged in a few pints of Guinness to celebrate my birthday and only arrived at the station 10 minutes before airtime.

That being said, we certainly had a great time, the tunes rocked and all was good. How it sounded to anybody listening is a whole other matter. Just the sound of Doug and Armitage singing “Happy Birthday” was enough to convince me that their talents certainly do not lie in making music!

If you are curious, this is what we played.

Song - Artist - Album

Me
Turn it On – Chop Suicide - Demo (Sex)
Getting You Off – Handsome Devil - Fully Automatic (Sex)
You’re a Drag When You’re High – Electric Satisfaction – Crash Kelly (Drugs)
Rock and Roll – Poets & Pornstars - Single (Rock and Roll!)

Armitage Shanks
Shadow Play - Joy Division - Best Of
The Get Go - New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
Second Minute or Hour - Jack Penate - Matinée

Doug Ford
I Wanna Destroy You - Uncle Tupelo - 7 ”
Born to Lose - the Cynics - 7″
Way Out - Heavy Trash - Going Way Out
Give up - The Millions - Disrepectfully Yours

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Later.

Mark

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